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8 months ago ::
Nov 07, 2012 - 5:54AM
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I sort of want to recommend the Blade of the Flame trilogy by Tim Waggoner. It doesn't mention feats or powers, but is very transparent when it comes to who is what class. The main character is a Cleric (with a splash of Assassin), who is followed around by a half-orc Fighter; the two often act more like a Paladin & Barbarian, though. The downside to this trilogy is it is pretty dark. Also, for whatever reason Tim seems to think orcs & half-orcs have a keen sense of smell, a 'fact' brought up surprisingly often throughout the trilogy. I'm not going to tell you this series is anything close to fine literature, but it is a breezy read. On the other end of the spectrum, there's The Seal of Karga Kul by Alex Irvine, a Nentir Vale novel packed with 4e stuff - particularly dragonborn & eladrin - that I believe would be pretty decent were it not for the constant stream of game terminology. I got about halfway in before tossing it in the garbage.
4e D&D is not a "Tabletop MMO." It is not Massively Multiplayer, and is usually not played Online. Come up with better descriptions of your complaints, cuz this one means jack ****.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 08, 2012 - 4:56AM
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Thank you all for threcon over titles. I looked at the dragon lance ones on amazon and maybe I looked at the wrong thing but the prices were CRAZY. Like 150-170 for three books !!!
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8 months ago ::
Nov 08, 2012 - 11:15AM
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There are a lot of different versions of those older books available. Normally I'd point you towards an omnibus 'one volume' version, but those seem to have been out of print just long enough to make them too expensive. There are $7.99 paperback copies for the individual books on amazon, though.
Conversely, you could always hit up your local library. If they have any D&D novels, it'll probably be the old Dragonlance Chronicles & Icewind Dale trilogy.
4e D&D is not a "Tabletop MMO." It is not Massively Multiplayer, and is usually not played Online. Come up with better descriptions of your complaints, cuz this one means jack ****.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 3:24PM
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Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winternight
Dragons of Spring Dawning
^ if he likes those, there's a huge collection of novels from the same world.
The Dark Elf Trilogy
The Icewind Dale Trilogy
^Same here, actually
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8 months ago ::
Nov 10, 2012 - 8:11PM
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Avoid the Dresden Files. It has mature themes. While it does mention sex a couple times, there's also a race of vampires that pretty much feeds off of the act of sex itself. Very not child-friendly. Avoid the Black Company series as well. Though it wasn't mentioned here.
The others mentioned are fine. I would also recommend Temple of Elemental Evil.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 12, 2012 - 11:37AM
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Avoid the Dresden Files. It has mature themes. While it does mention sex a couple times, there's also a race of vampires that pretty much feeds off of the act of sex itself. Very not child-friendly.
Yes, but it avoids the gorey details. If the kid is 10 or 12, probably knows more about it than could be learned in the books.
Most D&D/Fantasy books have people hacked to death by 3-foot long shafts of sharpened steel, or set on fire, tortured, or blasted with some magic spell. With all that, who cares about something as minor as two people sleeping together? It's like the comic-book movie in which people complained about the language used by the 11-yo girl, but were seemed to have no problem with the fact she slit some guy's throat, hamstrung and then gutted another guy, and killed a couple more people in other gruesom ways. The killing is fine, but swearing and mentioning sex aren't?
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8 months ago ::
Nov 13, 2012 - 4:33AM
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Wasn't there a Drizz't novel in the 4E Realms?
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8 months ago ::
Nov 13, 2012 - 7:57AM
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Wasn't there a Drizz't novel in the 4E Realms?
A trilogy, I think. Gauntelgrim, which I'm certainly spelling incorrectly but can't be bothered to look up, and thensomething with Neverwinter in the title; and there's presumably I third, but I've forgotten the name if I ever knew it.
These, in the day when heaven was falling,
The hour when earth's foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling,
And took their wages, and are dead.
Playing: Mongoose Traveller
GMing: Barbarians of Lemuria
Planning: Reclaiming Neverwinter, a 4e D&D campaign
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8 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 4:21AM
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I sort of want to recommend the Blade of the Flame trilogy by Tim Waggoner.
Ugh! A_G, WHY? I'm a huge Eberron fan, and the Blade of the Flame is probably the worst (coherent) trilogy "set" in Eberron.
Aside from that, well, it might work.
As many others have said, they rarely blatently drop in-game stuff, so if your son is looking for his favorite power, he may be disappointed.
Rather, you might want to look for books with strong writing, heroic protagonists, and the like.
I'm a huge fan of the Dresden Files too, but I'm not sure if its suitable for a younger kid. You might need to be a bit older to appreciate a lot of the nuances of the books. The suggestions of Elaine Cunningham is a good one, I think, and R.A. Salvatore and Dragonlance has been the gateway that many a bookworm has taken. I just haven't re-read Salvatore anytime in the last....probably 5 years.
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8 months ago ::
Nov 14, 2012 - 11:47PM
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I sort of want to recommend the Blade of the Flame trilogy by Tim Waggoner.
Ugh! A_G, WHY?
Well, he did say preferably with a barbarian or a paladin, and the main characters mostly act the part. That said...yeah, not a great set of books. I just remembered the weird lycanthropy mish-mash towards the end of it, too. Geez. 
4e D&D is not a "Tabletop MMO." It is not Massively Multiplayer, and is usually not played Online. Come up with better descriptions of your complaints, cuz this one means jack ****.
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